Numerous US agents are helping the coup-appointed government in Ukraine to “fight organized crime” in the south east of the country, the German newspaper Bild revealed.

According to the daily, the CIA and FBI are advising the government in Kiev on how to deal with the ‘fight against organized crime’ and stop the violence in the country’s restive eastern regions.

The group also helps to investigate alleged financial crimes and is trying to trace the money, which was reportedly taken abroad during Viktor Yanokovich’s presidency, the newspaper said.

The head of the CIA, John Brennan, visited Kiev in mid-April and met with the acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and first Vice-President Vitaly Yarema to discuss a safer way to transfer US information to Ukraine.

Thank you, Kelley! I post it because I want people to know the other side of the conflict. I know American and European governments support Kiev in every way, but I also believe that many people understand that all isn't so simple, that there are many sides of every situation.My relatives live in Donetsk. Sitting and waiting in obscurity. They buy food and medicines, because afraid of situation, when there will be no bread in stores as there is no food in Slovenks now.

Just saw Jürgen Elsässer and Germans. I'm very glad and happy to see that there are still many good people in the World.

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What began with just over 100 participants a few weeks ago, drew on Easter Monday over 5000 people on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The new edition of "Monday demonstrations" to the initiator Lars Märholz are the first impartial demonstrations in the Federal Republic.

In addition to Andreas Popp, Lars Märholz and Rico Albrecht spoke on Easter Monday also COMPACT chief editor Jürgen Elsässer to the thousands of people that are the lies unchallenged no longer willing to accept by the mainstream media.

The residents of eastern Ukraine have long been closer to Russia than to the US and EU. In fact, that part of Ukraine had been a part of Russia. After February’s regime change, officials in the east announced that they would hold referenda to see whether the population wanted autonomy from the US-backed government in Kiev. The US demanded that Russian President Putin stop eastern Ukraine from voting on autonomy, and last week the Russian president did just that: he said that the vote should not be held as scheduled. The eastern Ukrainians ignored him and said they would hold the vote anyway. So much for the US claims that Russia controls the opposition in Ukraine.

When, six months ago, western Ukrainians were camping out in squares in Kiev, protesting against the then president of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovich, and occupying government buildings, they were hailed by the Western media as revolutionaries, democrats, 1989-style heroes taking a stand for liberty and decency. But when eastern Ukranians have done likewise, setting up protest camps in Odessa and elsewhere to signal their disdain for the new government in Kiev, or marching to government buildings and sometimes storming them, they’ve found themselves denounced by Western observers as ‘rabble-rousers’, ‘hysterics’, ‘fanatics’, ‘vandals’. The Western coverage of Ukraine has given new meaning to the phrase double standards; it has taken the ‘journalism of attachment’ – the fashion among Western observers for childishly painting foreign conflicts as simplistic clashes between the pure and the wicked – to a new low.

My wife's brother in Donetsk works in Security Service of Ukraine. He said a couple days ago that it would be better to leave town and Ukraine before the 25th of May, Presidential election. There is no President in Ukraine now, but after 25th most likely a new president will declare a State of emergency, block East town and regions, cut off all communications, etc. My wife's brother is thinking about leaving town with his wife and two children. They'll move to Crimea. My father-and mother-in-law don't know what to do. They have a hous, two dogs, acquired property. My father-in-law already expressed a desire to fight against militaries from Kiev, to be a sniper; he has a good eye.

In February she earned 3000 dollars, got tuberculosis and drug addiction. In winter she came from Donetsk to Kiev, and spent her time on the Independence Square (Maidan), every day she stood there for a month. And there she earned everything. Let's call her my distant relative's friend.

Love him or loathe him got to give Putin some credit. In the space of a few months he's wrested strategically vital Crimea off Ukraine without a drop of Russian blood being spilt, sufficiently destabilised Ukraine itself to ensure that it's highly unlikely to join NATO anytime soon and signed a multi billion deal with China reducing his exposure to Western sanctions. And staged a very successful winter Olympics. That's some pretty impressive geo-political play there. Bush would be proud.